I bet people have posted stuff about this alot. The ability to regenerate the Mist Energy is a really unique and wonderful thing, allowing players to play as much as they can. But to me, the regeneration method is really slow. 13.22 minutes to recharge just 1 point, and 22 hours to recharge 100. If regeneration was cut down like probably 2-6 hours short, more people would play and be satisfied. Players are complaining, alot of them actually. They just dont want to put this kind of topic here because it has been talked about so many times and probably rejected. Think of all the players that'll be on if the regeneration time was shortened. Im not asking for a huge cut, just something that alot of people need, as most of them cant Purchase energy with real money. Meaning they will have to spend energy to go on missions that will probably deplete 80% or even 100% of their energy just to find enough Crowns to purchase energy. So if the regeneration was cut by not much, but enough to get more players playing and less complaining and more positive feedback from said players, that would be über wonderful and greatly appreciated.
Regenerating Energy
Also to point out that even if you reduce it only 2~6 hours, people will still say the exact same thing:
"ME takes 16~20 hours to regen, which is pretty slow. Even reducing it by about 4 hours would be a great help..."
"ME takes 12~18 hours to regen, which is pretty slow. Even reducing it by about 2 hours would be a great help..."
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Also to point out that even if you reduce it only 2~6 hours, people will still say the exact same thing:
"ME takes 16~20 hours to regen, which is pretty slow. Even reducing it by about 4 hours would be a great help..."
"ME takes 12~18 hours to regen, which is pretty slow. Even reducing it by about 2 hours would be a great help..."
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Regenerated mist helps you go through the clockworks and it's free energy for every day. Let's say that I decreased my energy time to maybe like 21 hours and 30 minutes. You would be able to play so much, that you make lots of crowns. If you do not wish to wait, you should be buying elevator passes. They give unlimited times of clockwork runs. That's why there is the elevator pass. They last for weeks or a month.
Also, this can cause an abuse to the energy market because since people are getting so much crowns, they can buy lots of energy and sell it for higher profit. This will increase the energy market price. Nobody can stop them. OOO doesn't control the market. Only the players can. Remember this chain.
Mist = Helps you go through clockworks to get profit
The chain:
Easier time in regenerating mist -> Lots of clockwork runs -> Buys CE -> Sells some for a super high price -> Once the energy price increases, everybody will start complaining and whinning -> OOO may start to lose service and money due to the fact that the energy is super hard to afford -> OOO loses 40% of payed customers.
And that won't be good.
i actually played a crappy game. a in browser FPS powered by Unity. graphics made me wanna puke. Gun Models made my brain hurt and player animations was .....just...sick. yet someone commented," Better than Spiral Knights. " and you know what i did? I upvoted that.
What Im trying to say, People just wanna play game after game. Your main stream soft core player just wants to get on and kill something and have fun.
not look pretty, devote countless hours, play the ce market, etc
maybe this game isnt yours man.
Spiral Knights was never intended to be a hardcore, play-all-day game. So if regeneration us too slow, go do something useful. Read a book, socialize with people you know, disprove Einstein's theory of relativity, etc.
The painfully "slow" regeneration speed is how OOO sells CE and Elevator Passes. Stack the profit loss on top of Benightz's explanation for profit loss, and you get even more profit loss.
What you probably haven't realized is that increasing the regeneration rate will effectively increase the price of CE. You will not be able to earn CE faster, but you will have to play even more per day for it.
Be careful what you wish for and et cetera.